Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If liability rules are to perform any of the functions mentioned there must be at least some prospect of their being enforced . |
| 2 | While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits . |
| 3 | The effect of the burning power cables was to send much of the instrumentation around the reactor into confusion . |
| 4 | One straightforward way of providing incentives is to push some of the risk of poor performance on to managers . |
| 5 | The practice in medieval times was to house all of the grain crops in the barn , using ricks as a last resort only when the barns were full . |
| 6 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |